MIIT Announces Telecom Industry Economic Performance of 1H16

Recently MIIT announced the economic performance of telecom industry in the first half of this year officially.

 

 

China's telecom service revenue was CNY 611.28 billion in 1H16 with a 5.6% YoY increase while its total operating revenue increased 47.7% to CNY 1.57868 trillion.

 

In June, the service revenue of China's three major operators totally hit CNY 102.66 billion, showing a 7.2% YoY growth and a 0.3% month-to-month increase. A 50.7% YoY increase happened to the total operating revenue CNY 284.92 billion.

 

China Mobile maintained better growth, compared with the other two giants.

 

 

China's mobile subscribers increased 24.778 million in the first half of 2016, reaching 1.3 billion with a 94.6% penetration. China posted a 130 million net add in mobile broadband (3G/4G) subscribers of which the total hit 838 million, accounting for 64.4%. China took 4G subscriber base to 613 million in 1H16 with a net increase of 183 million.

 

 

A 18.632 million net increase happened to fixed broadband access subscriber in 1H16 and the total has reached 278 million.

 

 

In 1H16, the duration of calls on mobile phone hit 1.4 trillion minutes with a 1% decrease and a 1.2% decline rate decrease in China compared with last year. The mobile Internet access traffic reached 3.75 billion GB, a 123.9% YoY growth. The average monthly mobile Internet access traffic data per subscriber exceeded 700MB.

 

The fall of traditional voice services has eased but the mobile traffic services kept growing explosively in 1H16.